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- ATO considers e-tax for Mac OS X
- By Michael Lee, ZDNet Australia, March 27, 2012. "The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has not given up an e-tax version for Mac users, with the government agency looking into whether it is now possible to port the app to OS X..."
Added: 27 March 2012;
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- HMRC to use Twitter to tackle tax evasion
- Publicservice.co.uk, 20 March 2012. "HM Revenue and Customs has launched a new online campaign through Twitter to help those trading online to come up to date with their tax payments..."
Added: 22 March 2012;
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- ATO data matching sees 1200 prosecuted
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, March 15, 2012. "The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has been hot on the trail of tax cheats, last year charging 1200 people with tax and superannuation offences uncovered using the agency's data-matching techniques. Data matching sees the ATO collate data from a number of third parties, including government agencies and private enterprises, matching income and welfare information against reported taxable income. The process highlights those who aren't reporting their income correctly, prompting ATO staff to take a closer look at an individual's or a business' books. The Trading Post, eBay and Centrelink have all participated in the ATO's data-matching efforts..."
Added: 19 March 2012;
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- IRS Needs to Further Enhance Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Taxpayer Data - GAO-12-393
- Government Accountability Office, March 16, 2012. "IRS implemented numerous controls and procedures intended to protect key financial and tax-processing systems; nevertheless, control weaknesses in these systems continue to jeopardize the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the financial and sensitive taxpayer information processed by IRS's systems. Specifically, the agency continues to face challenges in controlling access to its information resources. For example, it had not always (1) implemented controls for identifying and authenticating users, such as requiring users to set new passwords after a prescribed period of time; (2) appropriately restricted access to certain servers; (3) ensured that sensitive data were encrypted when transmitted; (4) audited and monitored systems to ensure that unauthorized activities would be detected; or (5) ensured management validation of access to restricted areas. In addition, unpatched and outdated software exposed IRS to known vulnerabilities, and the agency had not enforced backup procedures for a key system..."
Added: 19 March 2012;
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- HMRC poses questions on online tax services
- Consultation considers online accounts and pre-filled returns and statements, by Mark Say. Guardian Professional, Wednesday 16 November 2011. "HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has launched a consultation on the online elements of its modernisation of the personal tax system..."
Added: 17 November 2011;
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- Online access to tax rolls through ID port/MinID
- ePractice.eu, 28 October 2011. Country Norway; Domain eGovernment; Topic eIdentity and eSecurity, Services for Citizens, Infrastructure. "On 21 October 2011, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance published the tax rolls for 2010. The Parliament decided that this year this information should be made accessible on the website of the Tax Administration - Skatteetaten.no - only, after logging on the authentication portal 'ID port/MinID' with one of the following eID solutions: MinID, Buypass ID or Commfides e-ID. The tax rolls are records of a taxpayer's (natural or legal persons) name, year of birth (or year of creation for companies), zip code, city, taxation municipality, net income, net assets and assessed tax amount..."
Added: 2 November 2011;
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- E-Filing Tax Returns: Penalty Authority and Digitizing More Paper Return Data Could Increase Benefits - GAO-12-33
- Government Accountability Office, October 5, 2011. "In 2011, 79 percent of all individual tax returns were e-filed, a noticeable increase over prior years. Both preparer and self-prepared e-file rates increased, which IRS officials attributed to different factors. They said the e-file mandate was one key factor in the growth of preparer e-filing. Preparers GAO interviewed who were new to e-filing said they experienced increased costs and administrative burdens due to the mandate. Several preparers who had been e-filing prior to the mandate said they experienced some of these same problems when they first e-filed, but they now find that e-filing helps their business--for example, by reducing the time needed to file returns..."
Added: 6 October 2011;
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- Supplier panel bypassed by Australian Taxation Office
- by Fran Foo. The Australian, October 4, 2011. "The Australian Taxation Office bypassed its own technology supplier panel to directly award Accenture IT contracts worth more than $35 million. None of the other panel members were invited to bid for the contracts, nor were they given prior notice of the projects, The Australian can reveal. Five companies are on the tax office's IT application services panel -- Accenture, Capgemini, CSC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. The panel started operating on July 7 this year and will run until July 27, 2014..."
Added: 4 October 2011;
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- Invitation to join the online SME Tax Forum
- Australian Taxation Office. "If you are a decision maker within a small to medium sized enterprise (SME) with a turnover of between $2 million and $250 million, we would like to invite you to join and participate in our online forum..."
Added: 29 September 2011;
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- Expediency and red tape collide in IRS mobile app release
- By Aliya Sternstein. NextGov, 20 September 2011. "While an Internal Revenue Service mobile application that lets taxpayers check the status of refunds is secure, according to a federal watchdog, he scolded the IRS for breaking procedural rules to get it to market quickly. The IRS2GO app, which also allows users to receive tax tips and the latest agency Twitter messages, launched Jan. 20 at Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market. In an audit released Tuesday, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that all sensitive data a user enters, such as a Social Security number or refund amount expected, is encrypted or coded in a way that blocks interception during transmission..."
Added: 22 September 2011;
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- Tax office recoups millions through data modelling
- by Ian Grayson. The Australian, August 2, 2011. "The Australian Taxation Office is honing a set of sophisticated computer models it hopes will help claw back millions of dollars lost through fraudulent individual tax returns. The models will be used to scan tax returns and spot anything from identity fraud to lodgment of multiple fictitious returns by criminal syndicates..."
Added: 3 August 2011;
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- ATO seeks waiver to hunt data on taxpayers' investments
- by Sean Parnell, FOI Editor. The Australian, July 27, 2011. "The Australian Taxation Office wants a permanent exemption from privacy guidelines covering its data-matching operations to compile dossiers on taxpayers' property arrangements and investments. The tax office is one of the commonwealth agencies leading the fight in the data wars, using largely automated systems to deal with tax fraud and assist other agencies in their investigations..."
Added: 27 July 2011;
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- IRS mobile app gains 245,000 users in two months
- IRS2Go allows taxpayers to track when refund check is coming, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, March 18, 2011. "The Internal Revenue Service has signed up 245,000 users in two months for its IRS2Go mobile phone tax refund tracking application that operates on iPhone and Android smart phones, officials announced..."
Added: 22 March 2011;
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- Information Security: IRS Needs to Enhance Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Taxpayer Data - GAO-11-308
- Government Accountability Office, March 15, 2011. "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a demanding responsibility in collecting taxes, processing tax returns, and enforcing the nation's tax laws. It relies extensively on computerized systems to support its financial and mission-related operations and on information security controls to protect financial and sensitive taxpayer information that resides on those systems. As part of its audit of IRS's fiscal years 2010 and 2009 financial statements, GAO assessed whether controls over key financial and tax processing systems are effective in ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of financial and sensitive taxpayer information. To do this, GAO examined IRS information security policies, plans, and procedures; tested controls over key financial applications; and interviewed key agency officials at four sites..."
Added: 16 March 2011;
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- New Zealand Inland Revenue Shows Effective Use of Facebook
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, March 10, 2011. "A lot of government agencies around the world are using Facebook as a cooler (they wish!)alternative to their web sites. As a consequence, the value added they provide is limited, which is reflected into low number of friends / followers and modest interaction. The Inland Revenue in New Zealand is using Facebook to inform people hit by the recent earthquake about tax relief, impact of a potential loss of tax records, changes in tax status, donation opportunities..."
Added: 11 March 2011;
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